BEN CRENSHAW

'Ben Crenshaw'

'Personal Information'
'Birth'	Austin, Texas
'Nationality'
'Residence'	Austin, Texas
'College'	University of Texas
Career
'Turned Pro'	1973
'Tours'	PGA Tour Champions Tour
'Professional wins'	27 (PGA Tour: 19, Other: 8)
Best Results in Major Championships Wins: 2
Masters	'Won' 1984, 1995
U.S. Open	T3: 1975
British Open	T2: 1978, 1979
PGA Championship	2nd: 1979
Awards
Bob Jones Award	1991
World Golf Hall of Fame	2002

'Ben Daniel Crenshaw' (born January 11, 1952) is an American golfer. He was born in Austin, Texas. He attended and played golf at Austin High School and the University of Texas before turning professional in 1973.
Crenshaw won his first event in his rookie season on the PGA Tour, and picked up a win more seasons than not from then on. In 1984 he won The Masters, one of golf's four major championships. In the mid-1980s he suffered from Graves' disease, a disease of the thyroid, but he continued to accumulate victories, finishing with 19 on the PGA Tour, including a second Masters in 1995.
Crenshaw won several further professional events outside the PGA Tour, including individual and team titles in the World Cup of Golf in 1988.
Crenshaw is widely regarded as one of the best putters in golf history. His instructor growing up, Harvey Penick, taught Ben a smooth, effortless stroke on the greens, which allowed him to master even the speediest of greens -- including those at Augusta National Golf Club. In winning the Masters in 1995 (a victory that came a week after Penick's death), "Gentle Ben" did not record a single three-putt during the tournament.
Since 1986, Crenshaw has been a partner with Bill Coore in Coore & Crenshaw, a golf course design firm.

Contents

PGA Tour wins (19)

Other wins (8)

Amateur wins

Results in major championships

Notable

See also

External links

PGA Tour wins (19)

★ 1973 (1) San Antonio Texas Open

★ 1976 (3) Bing Crosby National Pro-Am, Hawaiian Open, Ohio Kings Island Open

★ 1977 (1) Colonial National Invitation

★ 1979 (2) Phoenix Open, Walt Disney World National Team Championship (with George Burns)

★ 1980 (1) Anheuser-Busch Golf Classic

★ 1983 (1) Byron Nelson Golf Classic

★ 1984 (1) 'The Masters'

★ 1986 (2) Buick Open, Vantage Championship

★ 1987 (1) USF&G Classic

★ 1988 (1) Doral-Ryder Open

★ 1990 (1) Southwestern Bell Colonial

★ 1992 (1) Centel Western Open

★ 1993 (1) Nestle Invitational

★ 1994 (1) Freeport-McMoRan Classic

★ 1995 (1) 'The Masters'
Major championships are shown in 'bold'.

Other wins (8)

★ 1975 Texas State Open

★ 1976 Irish Open (European Tour)

★ 1979 Texas State Open

★ 1980 Texas State Open

★ 1981 Mexican Open

★ 1985 Shootout at Jeremy Ranch (with Miller Barber)

★ 1988 World Cup (individual title and team title with Mark McCumber)

★ 1995 PGA Grand Slam of Golf

Amateur wins

★ 1971 NCAA Championship

★ 1972 NCAA Championship (tie with Tom Kite)

★ 1973 NCAA Championship, Western Amateur, Sunnehanna Amateur

Results in major championships

Tournament	1970	1971	1972	1973	1974	1975	1976	1977	1978	1979
The Masters	DNP	DNP	T19 LA	T24 LA	T22	T30	2	T8	T37	CUT
U.S. Open	T36 LA	T27	CUT	CUT	DNP	T3	T8	T49	CUT	T11
The Open Championship	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	T28	DNP	DNP	T5	T2	T2
PGA Championship	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	T63	T10	T8	DNP	T16	2

Tournament	1980	1981	1982	1983	1984	1985	1986	1987	1988	1989
The Masters	T6	T8	T24	T2	'1'	T57	T16	T4	4	T3
U.S. Open	T32	T11	T19	CUT	CUT	CUT	T6	T4	T12	CUT
The Open Championship	3	T8	T15	CUT	T22	T35	T21	T4	T16	T52
PGA Championship	T41	CUT	CUT	T9	CUT	T59	T11	T7	T17	T17

Tournament	1990	1991	1992	1993	1994	1995	1996	1997	1998	1999
The Masters	T14	T3	46	CUT	T18	'1'	CUT	45	CUT	CUT
U.S. Open	CUT	DNP	DNP	DNP	T33	T71	CUT	T65	CUT	CUT
The Open Championship	T31	T80	DNP	CUT	T77	T15	T27	DNP	CUT	DNP
PGA Championship	T31	WD	T73	T61	T9	T44	T69	CUT	CUT	CUT

Tournament	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007
The Masters	CUT	CUT	CUT	CUT	CUT	CUT	47	T55
U.S. Open	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP
The Open Championship	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP
PGA Championship	WD	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP

LA = Low Amateur

DNP = Did not play

WD = Withdrew

CUT = missed the half-way cut

"T" indicates a tie for a place

Green background for wins. Yellow background for top-10

Notable

★ He played on four Ryder Cup teams (1981, 1983, 1987, 1995) and captained the 1999 team.

★ In 1991, Ben Crenshaw was given the Bob Jones Award, the highest honor bestowed by the United States Golf Association in recognition of distinguished sportsmanship in golf.

★ He is now a noted golf course designer, working in partnership with Bill Coore.

★ His step-mother, Roberta Crenshaw, was an Austin-area philanthropist.

★ He was inducted into the World Golf Hall of Fame in 2002.

★ He is the 2006 Kappa Alpha Order Sportsman of the Year.

★ In 2007, Ben Crenshaw made the cut at The Masters beating the likes of notables Ernie Els, Sergio García, Chris DiMarco, Michael Campbell, and Colin Montgomerie.

See also

★ Golfers with most PGA Tour wins

External links

★ Profile on the PGA TOUR official site

★ Ben Crenshaw Golflegends.org

★ Ben Crenshaw's Texas State Open Victories